Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will limit itself to 80 pages until 1931; thereafter I suppose "the sky will be the limit" to advertising. I am one of those who is overfed with advertising and have cancelled my subscription to a number of magazines and publications which force advertising into the reading pages and insist that the reader must take this meretricious hash, whether he wants to or not. I have already written once before protesting against what I consider an insufferable impertinence on the part of modern publishers, to whom the advertiser is the commanding force and who treat the convenience of the readers...
...same method might be used to correct other lovers of cacaphony. Those who insist on letting their radios loose at full blast in what should be the dead of night could be cheerfully sentenced to an eternity of bad jazz. For the Gold Coast bottle-throwers and week-end revelers, a hell of raucous outcries, accompanied by an undertone of breaking glass could well be prescribed...
Proud and peculiar is Mr. Warren's concept of the roles of architect and client. He might have been speaking of any of his achievements when he said of the Library of Louvain : "As the architect and artist of the building I possess the right to insist that it shall be constructed as planned, and even after the completion of the building I have the right to insist that the structure shall remain as I built it!" Architect Warren planned to top the library with a heavy balustrade of floral pillars so shaped and intertwined as to spell...
...ranking is offered for approval. No. 1--Tilden; no. 2--Hunter; no. 3--Lott; no. 4--Doeg; no. 5--Van Ryn; no. 6--Mercur; no. 7--Allison; no. 8--Shields; no. 9--Coen; no. 10--Bell. The objections will be strongest to the last three. A good many will insist that Shields is too high, that Coen ought not be ranked, and that Mangin ought to receive consideration somewhere. And maybe they are right. Judging strictly on this season's record, there would unquestionably be some changes, but judging from an estimate of the ability and immediate possibilities...
...football over the Physics Lab radio. By special arrangement with the heating plant the atmosphere over there can be made quite realistic. Fur coats are quite all right and any one who wants to can sing Boola Boola. Men are not great assets during games anyway--they always insist that you listen to the rules, and our escort last year disconcertingly chewed and swallowed the entire program in his excitement. --The Vassar Miscellany...